Reconstructing Yeats: The Secret Rose and The Wind Among the Reeds

by Steven D. Putzel

This book focuses on the two works in the subtitle as well as on unpublished manuscripts and notebooks in the Yeats collection of the National Library of Ireland. The author argues that by the end of the 1890s Yeats had developed a coherent symbolic system based on his work with Irish folklore and mythology and that this system is most clearly delineated in the first editions of the work and in Yeats's unpublished papers. The book begins with a study of Yeats's Irish and Celtic sources, then moves on to outline the symbolic theory, drawing heavily on Yeats's notebooks. The theory is then applied in a critical study of the poems, prose, and plays of the last half of the 1890s.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1986

Reviews

[Beth Casserly]

extremelyyyyy useful for my research, i am going to cite this book exactly one million times. however, has forced me to do syllable and stress analysis so…one star off.